Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many training places for core psychiatry training were (a) commissioned and (b) filled in each of the last five years.
The following figures are produced by the Health Education England Oriel recruitment system and are for England. Oriel has only been in operation for the last three years and the Department does not have access to any comprehensive data collected by local regional teams prior to this.
Year | Commissions | Filled |
Core Psychiatry CT1 2016 | 425 | 404 |
Core Psychiatry CT1 2015 | 419 | 362 |
Core Psychiatry CT1 2014 | 423 | 354 |
Paeds ST1 2016 | 379 | 351 |
Paeds ST1 2015 | 373 | 359 |
Paeds ST1 2014 | 376 | 374 |
Source: Oriel
Note: The figures for Paediatrics are for ST1 only (which is general paediatrics). There are other paediatric specialties that are entered into in later years of speciality training.